HGTV Home and Landscape Platinum Suite

Create Your Dream Home with Help from HGTV. Take a fresh approach to the way you live with HGTV Home & Landscape Platinum Suite, from the #1 home improvement television network.

Create Your Dream Home with Help from HGTV.

Are you looking to update a living room, bedroom or other space but aren’t really sure where to begin? HGTV Home & Landscape makes the process a cinch. Easily draw out your room. Then choose materials and furnishings just by dragging and dropping.

This new software is perfect for creating a new living space; adding a fireplace; making your home energy efficient with new appliances; replacing countertops, cabinetry and fixtures; enhancing any room in your house with a brand new look; and adding decks, fountains, patios and gardens. You can import digital photos of your home’s exterior or interior and instantly change paint colors. You can even design your dream home from scratch.

Easily draw out your room. Then choose materials and furnishings just by dragging and dropping. Click to enlarge.

Design your dream home from scratch. Click to enlarge.

Import digital photos of your home’s exterior or interior and instantly change paint colors. Click to enlarge.

Add value with a luxury bathroom. Click to enlarge.

HGTV Home & Landscape software makes it easy to design the kitchen of your dreams. Click to enlarge.

And it’s easier than ever–no design experience necessary! Just point and click!

• Room Makeovers
• Interior Design and Remodels
• HGTV How-To Video Library
• Kitchens & Baths
• Landscaping & Decks
• Home Design
• Cost Estimating
• 7,500 Plant Encyclopedia

Easy Room Makeovers with multiple options–or you can start with your own digital pictures. Import digital photos of home furnishings–or family photos–into your one-of-a-kind design!

Hundreds of 3D Appliances, Furnishings, Lighting and More! Customize your space by selecting countertops, furniture and appliances in every style imaginable. Everything you need to plan, design, customize and create.

HGTV Home & Landscape software makes it easy to design the kitchen of your dreams. Easily refinish cabinets, replace countertops, update appliances, and more. Even add decorative hoods and backsplashes and more functional eating areas.

Plan Your HGTV Green Kitchen. Kitchens are the energy hog of the home. Between refrigerators and the ovens, cooktops and dishwashers, microwaves and small appliances, it’s easy to see how a kitchen can cook up most of your energy bill. HGTV Home & Landscaping software will help you to plan and visualize a new, updated kitchen, complete with new, more energy-efficient appliances.

Wizard-Driven Interface makes any project fast and easy. There’s even free tech support!

Photorealistic 3D Technology for unparalleled visualization capacity. 3D Real View makes it possible to conduct your own virtual walkaround.

Get Professional Tips from HGTV’s Video Library and a printed user guide to get you started and keep your creativity flowing. A variety of important topics are included, all to ensure your home improvement project turns out just as you dreamt it! Subjects include ?

• Interior Paint Finishings
• Improving Your Kitchen
• Artistic Backsplashes
• Framing Windows
• Eco-Friendly Carpets
• Mold Prevention Methods
• And Much More

Landscaping & Deck Design
There’s never been an easier way to plan and visualize beautiful, functional landscape than with HGTV Home & Landscape software. Includes fencing and gates; pathways and driveways; lighting and irrigation; gardens and gazebos; water features; barbeques and patio furniture.

Design Your Dream Home From Scratch
10,000+ Home Plans to get your started. Why not start with an example from our library of home plans. You set the number of floors, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, and home style.*

Create your own floorplan in minutes or, create your own door and window styles, cabinets, lighting and window coverings. Build in everything from electrical outlets and switches to home networking and theatre systems. Plus ? automatic roof placement, complete HVAC and plumbing, easy material selection–brick, stone, siding–and more.

Plan and visualize a new, updated kitchen, complete with new, more energy-efficient appliances.

There’s never been an easier way to plan and visualize beautiful, functional landscape. Click to enlarge.

Design landscapes in 2D or 3D with a bounty of helpful tools. Click to enlarge.

Summary of Features–Home Design and Remodeling

Flexible Interior Design Features

• Replace Paint and Fabric:
  Take a digital picture of any room and visualize your new space.

• Flooring Materials Library:
  Woods, tiles, carpets and more Countertops Library, including granites and marbles
• Brand Name Content and Materials
• Complete Furniture & Appliance Library:
  Hundreds of 3D models to choose from

Realistic Visualization Features

• Design in Photorealistic 3D:
  The changes you make in 3D are simultaneously made to your 2D plan–automatically.

• 3D Walkthrough:
  Create virtual tours to visualize your finished living space before you ever start your project.
• Accurate Natural Lighting:
  Visualize your home’s interior at different times of day.
• Easy Zoom and Navigation
• Add Digital Photos:
  Add photos of any home furnishing to your 3D home designs. Even add a photo of your family.

Powerful Home Design Features

• Intelligent Walls:
  Easily draw interior and exterior walls that automatically connect and repair.

• Doors:
  Use the Door Wizard to add simple doors, bi-fold doors, French doors, sliding doors, garage doors and more.
• Windows:
  Just click along a wall to insert casement, hung, sliding, bay, vent, hopper or louvered windows, plus windows in virtually any shape.
• Hundreds of lighting fixtures

Includes fencing and gates, pathways and driveways, and more. Click to enlarge.

Design Your Dream Home From Scratch! Click to enlarge.

Automatic roof placement, complete HVAC and plumbing, easy material selection and more. Click to enlarge.

Create your own floorplan in minutes. Click to enlarge.

Summary of Features–Landscaping and Decks

Powerful Drawing Features

• Terrain Modeling Tools:
  Design your home anywhere, regardless of topography.asily draw interior and exterior walls that automatically connect and repair.

• Collision Control:
  Prevents objects from being inserted where they do not belong.
• Garden Beds, Ponds and Edging
• 3D Real View:
  Exclusive technology assures photorealism.

Advanced Landscaping Features

• Terrain Modeling:
  Easily specify hills and valleys

• Complete Plant Encyclopedia:
  7,500+entries with lighting and watering requirements
• Garden Visualizer:
  View plant growth and seasonal changes.
• Plant Care Calendar:
  Identify the optimal times for planting, watering, pruning, fertilization and spraying.

Complete Hardscape Features

• Fences and Gates in a large number of styles

• Sidewalks, Pathways and Driveways
• Lighting and Irrigation
• Accessory Library:
  Includes fountains, waterfalls, barbecues and patio furniture.

Features for Outdoor Living

• Deck Builder Wizard:
  Automatically build decks and patios in virtually any shape, size or material.

• Gazebos and Sheds
• Retaining Walls
• Add New Landscape to Your Own Digital Photos

*Requires Internet connection

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Great for Landscaping Layouts
My background is in Architecture and I have been using similar products for over 12 years. I have am not a representative of either HGTV or Nova Development but I did extensive work, based on my background, on the images used for the advertising of HGTV Home Design series.

I can say that there is no product at this price range that is as user friendly. It is both extremely easy to use and extremely flexable. But do not think that it cannot do more advanced and complicated projects. The great aspect of HGTV Home Design series is that it is realtively new compared to others on the market. This then allows for the latest innovations to be built into the code base.

Commands as simple as using a Paint Brush to apply textures to walls and the ability to select/ right click and ‘REPLACE’ an object with a new one without deleting the old, are examples of how new innovations are being implimented. Curving a wall and having the roof automatically adjust to that new wall configuration are not available in some older code based programs.

The terrain tools and related ‘plants’ are easy to use and designed to make fast work of rendering with Real View. There are some ‘tricks’ that are useful when adjusting terrians but they are not hard to impliment. Because all the plants are image based, you don’t have the long wait associated with ‘3D’ plants when rendering with sun and shadows.

Anyone having a problem using the program must realize that such 3D programs can eat up your computer. You MUST have the latest Graphics Card Driver on your machine and the more memory you have the better off you are. Older machines can run these 3D programs but faster is better.

I highly recommend this product.

Jack Zimmer

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Punch Home and Landscape Design Suite with NexGen Technology

Take home, landscape, and interior designing to a new level. Punch! Home and Landscape Design Suite with nexGen Technology is easy as punch. It’s the most comprehensive home and landscape design software today. With its revolutionary nexGen Technology, you can build a new house or replicate your own house in just minutes. With the Intelligent Design feature, walls, paint, flooring, and more are moved, changed or updated with a click of the mouse. There’s also a ?Building Green” feature - scroll over your design and the screen will highlight areas where you can apply environmentally friendly, energy or money saving tips and options. Web integration can add to the already thousands of objects provided in the program’s custom library by importing objects from Google SketchUp.

Real-time walk and fly through Landscape topography Property slope tools and Excavation tool Deck design tools including multi-level decks Automatic curved stair & railing generator Estimator Framing, roof truss, window & door schedules Floor Plan Trace 3D landscape growth Definable sun location Automatic floor plan dimensioning Custom complex roof tool International plant zone maps Editable home & deck plans 2D & 3D object designer Construction phase overlays Electrical, HVAC, Plumbing, Foundation planners Lawn Sprinkler Designer Irregular shaped Wall Wizard Skylight and Dormer cutout tools 3D Cutaway slider Exterior wainscot tool Cabinet Wizard PlantFinder BMP, JPG, DXF & DWG import/export and Google SketchUp & 3DS import

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star Wasted Time and Money
I bought this product with the single purpose of designing and building my workshop. Having been involved with steep learning curves on other software, I also enrolled in Punch University to learn how to use the software. After looking at the first lesson, I realized I couldn’t find the tools they were using. I couldn’t find the toolbar. After an email to them, I get a call from Customer Service telling me that the University provides instruction in an entirely different product and no, there is no training available for the version I bought. Tuition was rerfunded a few days after they said it would be so I decided to go it on my own. Understand that I am no neophyte to drawing and CAD programs. After many false starts and hitches, I have the building drawn and fire up their “Power Tool” called Framing Editor and hope to get a materials list and a drawing. No joy. Software wouldn’t print from that view and the materials list didn’t include framing. Gave up and threw in the towel. They got me on this one so be careful if you’re considering this software. I gave it one star because the system wouldn’t let me go lower. On the piece of [...] scale this thing reeks.

Jim

5 Stars Great Program
Although I’m unable to compare this with other titles in the same category, I think Punch! Home & Landscape Design Suite is a great program. If you’re interested in home improvement or construction, this is a great tool! Getting started is quick and easy but all the possibilities will keep you involved with this program for a long time. I created a model of our current house and the 3D walk-through is an uncanny experience. The ability to visualize improvement ideas is of great assistance. Much better than heading out to the store and looking at samples and trying to picture it in your head.

2 Stars Poor Controls
I bought this product as an upgrade hoping the controls would be better than the previous versions….they made them worse. I find myself clicking on building components (windows, doors, etc) SEVERAL times trying to move it but instead grab the wall its attached too. The whole feel of the program is awkward and time consuming to use. The product has been out for awhile now but you wont find any information about it on the Punch technical support page. Its not even listed as a product they support, it can only be found on their sales page. This product may be inexpensive but its too miserable to use to be worth your time.

1 Star Amazon failure
The product never arrived.

I sent customer support three emails about it. Not a single reply from Amazon.

Called AMEX and put a hold on the payment…

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3D Home Architect Home and Landscape Deluxe Suite Version 9

3D Home Architect Home & Landscape Design Suite 9 does a lot more than lay out your home and landscape designs. It gives you the ability to fine-tune every element of your home design or landscaping project. The wide range of tools & wizards will help you achieve your goals fast. Unlimited customization guarantees that your dream home will be perfect in every detail. Easy to use, yet powerful enough to generate buildable blueprint-style plans, it’s the only design program you’ll need. Accurate top-down representations of furnishings and other design elements in 2D Designer’s View Enhance your home’s interior with stylish furniture, lighting fixtures, customized cabinets, new appliances & more Make the ideal landscape to complement your home - complete with plants and trees, slopes and grades, fencing, even gazebos & pools Includes Plant Encyclopedia - Learn about plant care, growth zones, plant diseases, soil concerns and more

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star Total waste of $10.00
I thought I was getting a super bargain on some older software. No. Whatever company is making this has just taken the brand name. I was looking forward to replacing a program I had used in the past. This was completely different. The menus and tools don’t make any sense. I can’t drag walls to where I want them to be; everything ends up with crazy angles. Cheap software made for a quick buck. No effort of any kind went into making this product. I’m just going to throw it away. Would not burden anone with such a useless “gift”.

4 Stars Christmas Gift
Amazon gave fast service. Arrived at my home within a few days. Gave this to my son as a Christmas gift and he is really enjoying it.

5 Stars Excellent Service
Was extremely happy with the service from this supplier. Goods arrived in Australia very quickly and in excellent condition. Would not hesitate in using them again.

1 Star 3D Home Architect Home & Landscape Deluxe Suite Version 9
Where’s the manual???? A manual is not included with this software. The help files are not helpful either. I don’t even know where to begin. I’m very disappointed.

4 Stars Great Product
I got this for my dad for Christmas and he has had a great time creating ideas for his next home.

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